Warn when TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty in production (closes #149)
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With no trusted proxies configured, every client behind the reverse proxy production requires shares one rate-limit bucket per limit, so five POSTs per minute from anywhere holds the login limit full and denies the admin login until restart. The default is still correct; it was the consequence that was invisible. Startup now warns, and the README no longer claims the login limit is per-IP unconditionally.
This commit was merged in pull request #153.
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2026-08-12 13:49:39 +02:00
parent 339548d794
commit d8f9d149b5
4 changed files with 175 additions and 13 deletions

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@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
package config_test
import (
"bytes"
"log/slog"
"os"
"testing"
"time"
@@ -624,3 +626,79 @@ func testTrustedProxiesSuccess(
assert.Equal(t, expected, got)
}
// TestSharedRateLimitBucketWarning covers the startup warning that
// tells an operator their production deployment shares one rate-limit
// bucket between every client, which makes the admin login remotely
// deniable. It must fire when TRUSTED_PROXIES is empty in production
// and stay quiet otherwise.
func TestSharedRateLimitBucketWarning(t *testing.T) {
tests := []struct {
name string
environment string
trustedProxies string
expectWarning bool
}{
{
name: "prod without trusted proxies warns",
environment: config.EnvironmentProd,
expectWarning: true,
},
{
name: "prod with trusted proxies is quiet",
environment: config.EnvironmentProd,
trustedProxies: cidrPrivateV4,
expectWarning: false,
},
{
// Development is not required to run behind a
// reverse proxy, so the shared bucket the warning
// describes is not the expected shape there.
name: "dev without trusted proxies is quiet",
environment: config.EnvironmentDev,
expectWarning: false,
},
}
for _, tt := range tests {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
// Cannot use t.Parallel() here because t.Setenv
// is incompatible with parallel subtests.
t.Setenv("WEBHOOKER_ENVIRONMENT", tt.environment)
if tt.trustedProxies == "" {
require.NoError(
t, os.Unsetenv("TRUSTED_PROXIES"),
)
} else {
t.Setenv("TRUSTED_PROXIES", tt.trustedProxies)
}
var buf bytes.Buffer
log := slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(
&buf, &slog.HandlerOptions{
Level: slog.LevelDebug,
},
))
require.NoError(
t,
config.WarnSharedRateLimitBucketForTest(log),
)
if !tt.expectWarning {
assert.Empty(t, buf.String())
return
}
logged := buf.String()
assert.Contains(t, logged, `"level":"WARN"`)
assert.Contains(t, logged, "TRUSTED_PROXIES")
assert.Contains(t, logged, "shares one bucket")
assert.Contains(t, logged, "deny the admin login")
})
}
}